
Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually agressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realising that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won’t be the last time she rushes to Margarete’s aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete ‘Vanilla’, she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.
Festivals
Labels & Line Ups
Credits
- Cast
- Ella Rumpf
- Maria-Victoria Dragus
- Enno Trebs
- Orce Feldschau
- SWISS
- Benjamin Lutzke
- Franz Rogowski
- Ulrik Bruchholz
- Lana Cooper
- Robert Gwisdek
- Screenplay
- Jakob Lass
- Ines Schiller
- Hannah Schopf
- Nico Woche
- Eva-Maria Reimer
- Cinematography
- Timon Schäppi
- Editing
- Gesa Jäger
- Adrienne Hudson
- Music
- Golo Schultz
- Sales
- PICTURE TREE INTERNATIONAL
- Production
- FOGMA
Press
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Skipping any attempt at realism, Lass goes for the fun of overturning stereotypes and generally raising hell, though this is sometimes at the expense of making a deeper point. It should still click with a wide spectrum of young audiences.

Jakob Lass
Germany
Power and powerlessness, domination and submission are of great interest to me.
Jakob Lass (b. 1981, Bavaria) studied directing at the Konrad Wolf Film and Television School in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He has made more than a dozen short films that have screened and won awards at numerous festivals. His feature film LOVE STEAKS (2013) won the Lions Film Award at Rotterdam IFF and his film TIGER GIRL (2017) premiered at Berlin IFF. In 2008, he and his brother Tom founded Lass Bros productions. He lives and works in Berlin.